I'm not completely sure but I think the rule is simply 'denying a clear goalscoring opportunity' and the last man bit is something made up by pundits and fans. I don't remember Evans being anywhere near the incident
Maybe the ref was making up for the obvious mistake when Meyler was ruled offside when racing through on goal from a through ball that a palarse player played at and therefore put him onside! Bruce Senior went mental at the linesman for that poor decision.
Bruce Snr. was HILARIOUS last night. Owning Zaha in the first half by walking up to him with the ball at a snails pace instead of throwing him the ball (which had half the West stand laughing and I heard it in the East), and then the senior moment at that offside was class. Best manager we've had in years. Owns up to his mistakes, shows passion to the team and is building one hell of a squad going forward.
He was doing taps before he gave the ball to Zaha, and he said something to him which I expect would of been something along the lines of "Watch and learn son."
I thought it was a foul, but it is really hard to say whether the referee thought Evans would've got back to Zaha to deny the 'clear goal scoring opportunity'. I was expecting him to pull the red card out of his back pocket.
Mention of Taraabt (spelling?) has just reminded me of the funniest thing I ever saw at the KC when everybody to a man (and boy and girl) in the East Stand did the 'rolling of the arms' thing when he spat his dummy out because one of his teammates didn't pass to him and indicated to the bench that he wanted to come off...hilarious!
I thought Brady got the ball too, but once the ref had given the foul I thought Brady was getting a red.
It would normally have been a red, so we were a bit lucky. Though Easter should have got a second yellow and walked, so it's swings and roundabouts.
Actually thought Zaha showed his talent last night when he got chance, great touch great ideas, we just had him in our pockets, not only that we denied any service to him so well he never really got a chance to show what he can do. Never a 20 million pound player (is anyone) but I'm sure he'll go far in the game. It's not often you find a player with blistering pace, great control, a bag full of tricks and a good footballing head full of plenty of ideas to put his opponent on the back foot, all in one player. Reminds me very much of a young Walcott. Could do with spending a week or two with the circus to learn how to keep his balance though
On last nights showing i would not give 20p for Zaha nevermind £20m. What a non event he was until the 90+4min of added time. Thanks Mr Stockdale. You saved a point. That No.7 for Palace, Bolasei was also always whinging and having paddys when it did not go for him. Southern jessies. We had CP in almost complete control apart from one or two situations,. Korens first half miss from 7 yards out was beyond belief and cost us the win. Good game though. Onwards to Robin Hood country now.
Easter was a right dirty ****, every time the ball came near him in the air he was trying to knock the defender about like a Snodgrass, instead of going for the ball. Which brings me to another point, Prossy needs to stop glancing back at his marker when the ball is coming in the air, it gives the impression he's going to foul them and even though he doesn't (he's an absolute gent on the pitch in fact) he often gets penalised for it.
There was one in the 2nd half; think it might have been Zaha or Bolasie when meyler was running for the ball and they deliberately stopped him going to the ball by bending down and nutting his chest, sending him flying. THAT was a sending off for dangerous (and cynical) play.
